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Re: Ask HN: Who's an open source maintainer/project that needs sponsorship or help?

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Post by armini »

jasfi wrote: post #18

Nexus: https://github.com/jfilby/nexus This is a web framework + ORM for Nim. It's in desperate need of more work to support DBs other than PostgreSQL and make the ORM more flexible. The web side also needs more work.

It’s great to see there has been regular updates on this & thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Re: Ask HN: Who's an open source maintainer/project that needs sponsorship or help?

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Post by gattacamovie »

FBReader (aka FbreaderJ) is a very popular ebook Reader on android 10M+ downloads (and many other platforms). Unfortunately a few years back the owners of https://github.com/geometer/FBReaderJ (1.8k stars) decided to stop open source contributions and go only commercial. Their last open source version has been put here: https://github.com/geometer/FBReader-Android-2 (gradle based) As android SDK evolved, the app is no longer compatible with newer versions. The only fork that I know it made some updates for slightly newer sdk few years back: https://github.com/gelojavonitalla/FBReader-Android-2 and https://github.com/aplicatii-romanesti/FBReader-Android-2 Of course, besides updating sdk there is also a list of bugs which are long due (I can provide a list).

As the project was open till now, there were other open apps based on it, and currently unable to maintain both the main project and their own ones.

Re: Ask HN: Who's an open source maintainer/project that needs sponsorship or help?

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Post by gavinhoward »

pabs3 wrote: post #19
gavinhoward wrote: post #13

I am not an Open Source developer that needs funding. I just created a business, an LLC, to develop my software. I did this on purpose so that companies would have an entity to send money to if they use my software. I've heard that developers and managers at companies do want to give money to FOSS projects, but sending money to an individual is fraught with peril. Sending money to another company that can generate in…

Have you had much success with this model? Is your income no-strings-attached, do you provide support or just maintain the software? How do you find companies that just want to give you free money?

I just started the company, so I can't answer those questions unfortunately.

I'm timing the start of my business activities with the bottom of the economy so that bad companies will be gone and existing companies will be opening their wallets again.

If it would be wanted, I'll do a Q&A on HN if I succeed.

Edit: When I do get income, it won't be no-strings-attached; I will be providing services. However, my contract has an explicit provision that I retain full control of the software.

Some services I will provide include:

* Responding to bug reports. (I will straight up ignore and delete bug reports from non-customers.)

* Limited liability.

* Integrating my software into a customer's software.

* Answering questions about my software to customer employees.

If a customer asks for a different service, I'll probably consider that too.

Re: Ask HN: Who's an open source maintainer/project that needs sponsorship or help?

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Post by barefeg »

gavinhoward wrote: post #25
pabs3 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you had much success with this model? Is your income no-strings-attached, do you provide support or just maintain the software? How do you find companies that just want to give you free money?

I just started the company, so I can't answer those questions unfortunately. I'm timing the start of my business activities with the bottom of the economy so that bad companies will be gone and existing companies will be opening their wallets again. If it would be wanted, I'll do a Q&A on HN if I succeed. Edit: When I do get income, it won't be no-strings-attached; I will be providing services. However, my contract h…

> I will straight up ignore and delete bug reports from non-customers.

Wouldn’t it be more helpful to leave the reports but not work on them actively? It might be that a paying customer finds the same bug anyway.

Re: Ask HN: Who's an open source maintainer/project that needs sponsorship or help?

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Post by gavinhoward »

barefeg wrote: post #27
gavinhoward wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just started the company, so I can't answer those questions unfortunately. I'm timing the start of my business activities with the bottom of the economy so that bad companies will be gone and existing companies will be opening their wallets again. If it would be wanted, I'll do a Q&A on HN if I succeed. Edit: When I do get income, it won't be no-strings-attached; I will be providing services. However, my contract h…

> I will straight up ignore and delete bug reports from non-customers. Wouldn’t it be more helpful to leave the reports but not work on them actively? It might be that a paying customer finds the same bug anyway.

I meant that I would delete them from public view. I would investigate them for sure.

Re: Ask HN: Who's an open source maintainer/project that needs sponsorship or help?

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Post by devstein »

I maintain several open source projects, most notably:

Sparkmagic (https://github.com/jupyter-incubator/sparkmagic)

Sparkmagic provides jupyter magics and kernels for working with remote Spark clusters. It's used by thousands of developers and companies like Pinterest, Amazon, more!

I've been maintaining for the past few years and would love help!

KSOPS (https://github.com/viaduct-ai/kustomize-sops)

KSOPS, or kustomize-SOPS, is a kustomize KRM exec plugin for SOPS encrypted resources. KSOPS can be used to decrypt any Kubernetes resource, but is most commonly used to decrypt encrypted Kubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps. As a kustomize plugin, KSOPS allows you to manage, build, and apply encrypted manifests the same way you manage the rest of your Kubernetes manifests.

KSOPS is the most popular kustomize plugin and I'd love help maintaining and improving it from out GitOps fanatics.

Re: Ask HN: Who's an open source maintainer/project that needs sponsorship or help?

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Post by kwk1 »

armini wrote: post #21
kwk1 wrote: post #14

The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA.) https://fpa.freecad.org/

This is definitely something that could have huge impact & needs more love. Are you associated with the team or the project @kwk1?

Yes, I'm "kkremitzki", one of the founding FPA members and a FreeCAD administrator/dev.
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